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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! Maya Angelou
Courage Light Will Mirror Understanding Our Say Ourselves See Rise Like According Confront Nay
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. Maya Angelou
Work Myself Fool Liar Hypocrite Will Pay Say Those Would Would-Be I Write Seem Write Reader Dues Hears Any Going Behind Really Who
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. Maya Angelou
Life Work Thankful Grateful Live Believe I Believe Very Loves Hard Liver Play
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. Muhammad Iqbal
Life Best History Culture Law My Life Leader Islam Party Best Part Follow Given Lead Part Study Polity Literature Careful
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash
Dog Side Wrong Wrong Side Perpetually Door
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore
Truth Great Silence Words Water Dark Small Clear Great Truth Vessel Which Sparkling Sea
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. Rabindranath Tagore
Time Good Busy Too Finds No Time He Doing Doing Good Who
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke
Beautiful Waiting Our Once Our Lives See Only Perhaps Princesses Brave Us Who Lives Dragons
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring Earth Poems Like Returned Knows Child
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Obey Men Every Too State Good Men Must Corrupt Laws Well Actual
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom Great Power Before Must Great Power Well Acquire Use
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost
Me Conservative Fear Old Young Radical Dared Would Never Make
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. Robert Frost
Own Hell Way Go Go To Hell His Anybody Hold Inalienable Inalienable Right Right
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. Rumi
Love Heart Plant Those Spirit Give Glad Within Hearts Anything Holy Your Whose
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. Rumi
God You Envy Will Drawn Bestow Deliver Absorb Attention Removal Inward Occupation Beg May Which Your Away
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
Life People Enjoy Aims Main Never Most Learned
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Samuel Ullman
Hope You Age Old Fears Young Despair Self-Confidence Your
Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life. Shel Silverstein
Life Freedom Important Important Things Shoes Most Comfortable Leave Things Two
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Progress Fork Cannibal Uses
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot
Light Passion More Never Obvious Blind Than Person Experienced Explain Who
One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others. Thiruvalluvar
Love Heart Try Will Sacrifice Own Others Benefit Everything Possess No Love Himself Ready His Body Who Including
Love conquers all. Virgil
Love Conquers
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden
Love Me Those Laugh Find Admire Like Make Make Me Laugh Denominator Common Common Denominator Them Whom Among
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. William Blake
Art Naked Beauty Never Without Exist Displayed
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake
Wisdom Excess Road Leads Palace
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake
Happy Joy Old Sweet Shall Name Days Call Am Befall Thee Two
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